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Motifs
- Fairies make shoes for shoemaker. F346.1
- Devil as shoemaker. G303.3.1.18
- Learned professor from one university examines by signs a professor at another university (actually shoemaker or miller or the like). H607.2.1
- The gift of the fool. Of three brothers the shoemaker makes shoes for the queen and princess; the tailor, clothes; the fool – children. J1272
- Shoemaker speaks ill of lord's rule. Lord takes his tools away from him. Shoemaker begs for them saying that he cannot carry on his business without them. Ruler: "I thought ruling was your business so I took your tools to learn shoemaking." J1289.7
- An expensive joke. A shoemaker's apprentice greases boots as he would grease a fowl. The owner in anger returns and breaks a window. J1631
- Dog as wolf's shoemaker eats up the materials. Devours the cow, hog, etc. furnished him. K254.1
- Shoemaker offers to trim the peasant's feet to fit the shoes. The peasant prefers to accept the ill-fitting shoes. K1783
- Disguise as cobbler (shoemaker). K1816.10
- Shoemaker. P453
- Why shoemakers are indolent. A shoemaker spits at Christ on way to be crucified. Christ tells him, "A poor slobbering fellow thou shalt be, and all shoemakers after thee, for what thou has done to me." (Cf. A2231.2, P445.1.) P453.1
- Jokes about cobblers (shoemakers). X240
- Shoemaker drinks more than his portion of "drink of lies", which has been prepared for all to partake of equally. X242
- "What says David?" – Boy: "Pay your old debts." Variants: (a) What evil did Adam do? – He (shoemaker) made my shoes too small. (b) What kind of man was Moses? He was a day laborer. X435.1
Tale types
- ATU 102 The Dog as Wolf's Shoemaker
- ATU 1541** The Student Betrays the Shoemakers
- ATU 1695 Shoes for Animals (previously The Fool Spoils the Work of the Shoemaker, the Tailor, and the Smith)
- ATU 1711* The Brave Shoemaker (previously A Woodcutter does not Fear the Dead)
- ATU 815* The Shoemaker who Made Shoes for the Devil